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My father in law is having a very odd problem with his Windows 98 PC.
When he first logs in, he cannot run programs by double-clicking
desktop icons or by selecting them from the Programs menu. There is a
slight noise from the disk but nothing happens.
Also, in Windows Explorer, double-clicking folders or files similarly
has no effect. However, selecting a folder in the folder tree pane
causes its contents to display in the right pane.
However, programs run if you type the program name in Start->Run (with
the path if necessary).
If you run command.com from Start->Run and then close it, everything is
back to normal and double-clicking works as it should!
I now have created him an empty BAT file and told him to run it using
Start->Run before he does anything on the computer.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem? If not,
can anyone suggest a more automatic work-around. I've tried executing a
BAT file from AUTOEXEC.BAT and also
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run but neither of these
fixes the problem.
Thanks very much for any help you can give.
Julian
My father in law is having a very odd problem with his Windows 98 PC.
When he first logs in, he cannot run programs by double-clicking
desktop icons or by selecting them from the Programs menu. There is a
slight noise from the disk but nothing happens.
Also, in Windows Explorer, double-clicking folders or files similarly
has no effect. However, selecting a folder in the folder tree pane
causes its contents to display in the right pane.
However, programs run if you type the program name in Start->Run (with
the path if necessary).
If you run command.com from Start->Run and then close it, everything is
back to normal and double-clicking works as it should!
I now have created him an empty BAT file and told him to run it using
Start->Run before he does anything on the computer.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem? If not,
can anyone suggest a more automatic work-around. I've tried executing a
BAT file from AUTOEXEC.BAT and also
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run but neither of these
fixes the problem.
Thanks very much for any help you can give.
Julian